The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28

Clock for the Beating of Her Heart.
GEORGIA
Emanuel County Court convened Monday
]. j. Brinson, of Millen, lost his gin hous,
by fire on Friday.
The negro who was accidentally shot by
Mr. Templeton, in Burke county, Is i'm
proving.
At Douglasville Friday R. B. Upshaw,
while feeding the gin of J. B, Baggett, got
his left hand caught in the saws and will
lose three fingers.
O. r. Crimer, one of Burke's most sue
cessful and highly esteemed planters, died
at his country home last Friday and was
buried Sunday morning at Old church
Near Reynolds, Saturday, a 9-year-old son
of Bart McCants, while playing around a
gin, had his arm caught between the saws
and so terribly mangled that amputation
was necessary.
Carroll county farmers are looking
despondent over the cotton crop. The re-
cent drought cut the August crop very
short, and some will not make half the
amount they once thought they would
James Barrett of Augusta, who owns a
large mill pond near Waynesboro, on last
Friday turned the water loose out of the
pond and with his friends bagged about
1900 pounds of fine fish and a CARLOAD of
terrapin.
The election for Mayor and four Council
men of Carrollton, will take place next Sat
urday. Hon. Oscar Reese for Mayor, q. G.
Kranser, w. W. Roop, I. H. West and T.
F. New for Councilmen, will be elected
without opposition
Several nights ago the gin house of Mrs.
Leaptrot, in jefferson county, near the line
of Burke, was burned. 1t was leased by
Angus Keith. With the building was
burned some ten bales of cotton. The loss
is estimated at $1,000. There was no in
sprance.
The Camilla Jail now holds Garrett Bry-
ant the negro who killed Wyatt Oliver on
the farm of Henry Cannon. Oliver was
sent to occupy a cabin belonging to Mr.
Cannon. Bryant objected to giving it up,
and shot Oliver dead and fled to Florida
where he was arrested a short time ago.
Whitfield has again voted for prohibition
by majority of about 400. The election
has been quiet but exciting, and the poll
has been an unusually large one. Nine out
of the twelve precincts gave majorities for
prohibition. Out of a vote of 800 at Dalton,
the prohibition majority will reach about
fifty.
Last year some evil-disposed person or
persons entered the academy at Montezuma
and deliberately destroyed all the books
states and inkstands, and Wednesday night
the same thing was done again, and sup
posed to be by the same scamps. Quite a
number of books were cut all to pieces, and
the little clock of Prof. Ryals was smashed
all to atoms.
The goodwill and subscription list of the
Rome daily and weekly Courier has been
sold by w. H. Hidell to the Tribune Pub
fishing Company. The last issue of the
Courier will appear this week. and will be
followed by the first issue of the Tribune of
Rome, of which John T. Graves is editor,
A. Brooks business manager, and Houston
R. Harper local editor.
George Clements and Thomas Bruce are
working at the Ivy mines near Dahlonega
for f. E. Crisson Last Friday while sluice-
washing they picked up nugget of gold
which weighed few grains less than twelve
pennyweights. In the last two weeks they
have picked up nuggets of different sizes,
which, all put together, make about thirty
six pennyweights in the two weeks. The
nugget found Friday is the largest found
here since last year, when Dock Elliott
found one near the mineral springs weigh
ing sixty-fo pennyweights.
A party of negro men, while walking
through a strip of woods near the exposi-
ton at Atlanta, Monday, found white
baby at the foot of a tree in dying condi-
ton. The infant had its head crushed in.
and soon after the men found it death re-
heved it of its sufferings The body was
turned over to the Coroner. Two negro
women were before the Coroners jury and
testified that at an early hour Monday morn
ing they saw a white woman walking
through the woods with a bundle in her
arms They did not know her and did not
see her afterwards. This evidence fur
nishes the theory that the woman could tell
all about the dead infant if she could be
found.
AT Camilla is quite a stir over a CONNER
cial change. On Saturday evening last the
firm of j. S. Jones & Bro, prominent mer-
chants, sold out their entire stock of goods
to Messrs. Bennett q Emmons, also an inn
portant commercial firm. The sale was a
surprise to many, and regarded as having
been made at figures entirely too low, by
creditors, at least of the Jones Bros. Hence
1t has created considerable excitement, and
has brought many lawyers, creditors, ETC.,
TO the scene of the action. The goods were
removed on Saturday night in quick time
from the one store house to the other, and
Sunday Spence q Twitty, law firm, had
the goods so transferred, attached by an
order from Judge Bower, of Bainbridge A
big lawsuit is thought to be inevitable.
At Washington one night last week a lady
retired to rest with heavy feeling in the
region of her heart. After sleeping an hour
or two, she was suddenly awakened by the
sound of heart beating like a hammer strilt-
ing some metallic substance, while the press
ure around her heart seemed to be inclosed
She awakened her husband, light was
struck, she thought. she was dying. In
about an hour, when the clock struck, it
was discovered that the striking of the clock
had been mistaken for the beating of her
heart. Another lady had a cancer that de-
veloping very rapidly il was so sore that no
one was allowed to touch it, After several
days of bodily pain and mental anguish, the
sore proved to be tick bite, with the per
seyering insect still Juggling away at it. So
much for imagination.
A negro woman living in the Nineteenth
district of Harris county gave birth a few
nights since to singularly formed child.
II had a well-formed body, with perfect
limbs, but its face was singulary formed.
lt.had but one optical cavity. and that was
in the centre Of the face, where the bridge
of the nose is. The socket had an upper
and a lower lid, but contained two eyeballs.
There was no nose below the eye or ewes.
but protuberance from the centre of the
forehead, which much resembled the snout
of an elephant The monstrositv died
almost Immediately upon its birth. Il
weighed about nine pounds. DIR. j. w.
Mitchell, who attended the mother, tried 10
get the freak 10 preserve il, but the parents
were unwilling, so IL was buried The
mother, during the early months of her
confinement, was badly frightened by a
cat